In The Division 2 there is trouble regarding a street art image found in the game world. It contains a homophobic insult. Here is Ubisoft’s response.
What is the problem? A street art image from The Division 2, found in the game world, depicts a homophobic insult.
Ubisoft has since responded and apologized. Additionally, the image has been removed from the game. But what exactly did the image show?
A police officer with an insult on the badge
This is the image in question: The problematic street art image shows a police officer holding a donut. The intended insult is cleverly concealed on the officer’s badge.
It says “FA6607”, which can be associated with leetspeak and is a homophobic insult. What the creator intended can only be speculated, as the insult was placed there without context.
According to PCGamer, some fans suspect that the image is a reference to the song “Police Story” by the American punk band “Black Flag”.
Regardless of the context, the word is quite well concealed and made incomprehensible to anyone unfamiliar with leetspeak.
What is leetspeak? It is a variation of the English language that has developed on the internet. Characters are replaced with numbers, and special characters can also be included.
Ubisoft apologizes, wants to improve review process
This is what the publisher says: The publisher clearly distances itself from the statement on the image and issued a statement about it.
We were made aware that a street art image in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 shows offensive content. We removed it from the game via a patch on Thursday, April 11.
Source: PCGamer.com
To prevent such an incident from occurring again, the review process surrounding such images will also be scrutinized.
The Division 2 features dozens of such street arts scattered throughout its game world. As in its predecessor, these were created by numerous artists.
With the patch on April 11, not only was the image removed:
